The Recorder was swearing now.
"Is that cursed lantern never coming? So much the worse! I shall commence without it."
And he rose and tried to decipher the names in the dark.
"The first name is Bour ... no, Lour..."
Here a voice interrupted him in indignant protest.
"Oh! don't read like that! You double their sufferings. It is horrible! too horrible!"
It was Olivier.
"Who dares to speak here?" thundered the Recorder.
Clarisse desperately pulled her son by the arm.
"I implore you! ... my child! ... I do implore you!"